![]() In Reading, students are in the middle of a mystery genre study which features Agatha Christie.Each student read his or her piece aloud and the class commented on the stylistic techniques and grammatical forms applied. We practiced the application of complex sentence types and grammatical forms through a persuasive writing project on a Mark Rothko painting. ![]() The classes continued their work with vocabulary from Latin and Greek roots (example words: "anticipate," "recipient," "captivate" from "capt," "cip," and "cept," all meaning "to take"). Each student researched a particular aspect of Agatha Christie's And then there Were None, evaluating websites for quality and academic merit. In English 6, students began a short unit on nonfiction research and information writing to reinforce the skills they learned and applied during their "Hour in the Life" projects.Ask your sixth grader to help budget a weekend trip for your family! Students will now be using their knowledge of decimals and fractions to study their relationship with percents. In addition, they wrote story problems using photographs of gas pumps taken by the faculty and requiring the use of decimals for the solutions. All students should be proud of their effort on the in-class assessment. ![]()
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